Abu Omar al-Baghdadi

Hamid Dawud Mohamed Khalil al Zawi (died 18 April 2010), also known as Abu Abdullah al-Rashid al-Baghdadi or Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, was the Commander of the Islamic State of Iraq from 2006 until his assassination in 2010. He fought in the Iraq War against the United States, and was killed in a raid by Iraqi troops.

Biography
Hamid Dawud Mohamed Khalil al Zawi became the commander of the Islamic State of Iraq in 2006, leading resistance to the United States occupying army in Iraq during the Iraq War. He led the Mujahideen Shura Council, an umbrella group of eight Islamist militant groups, and for a few years Iraq and the USA believed that he was a fictional character made to give Iraq's rebels a face (they drew this information from a captured freedom fighter).

However, he was found in a Tikrit safehouse alongside Abu Ayyub al-Masri in the weekend of 18 April 2010, and the Iraqi army attacked them. The two were killed, and Al-Baghdadi was found dead in a hole in the ground inside of a house. The Iraqi government released photographs of the bodies of Baghdadi and al-Masri shortly after the operation.